Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Oct 19 03:54:07 CDT 2013
An i5 intel should have 4 cores. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:51:31 AM Subject: [dba-Tech] Chip terminology Belarc Advisor tells me my laptop contains a 2.5 Gz Intel Core i5-3210M CPU. Beneath that it says Multi-core (2 total) Hyper-threaded (4 total) Which I take to mean that it's a dual-core chip, but I don't understand what the Hyper-threaded number means. Can someone clue me in? TIA, -- Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com